Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Consideration of oneself or one's interests.
- noun Self-respect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Regard or consideration for one's self.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
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Examples
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Robert Nozick on the strong self-regard of intellectuals.
Notable & Quotable 2012
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The familiar knock on Valentine is his self-regard—that he's a bit of a preener, that Bobby loves Bobby.
Bobby's Boston Valentine Jason Gay 2011
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"Normal" nondepressed persons have what psychologists call "positive illusion"—that is, they possess a mildly high self-regard, a slightly inflated sense of how much they control the world around them.
Depression in Command Nassir Ghaemi 2011
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His self-involvement and self-regard restrict him as a novelist.
Philip Roth protest had nothing to do with feminism, says Virago founder 2011
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Running the government, by nature a less coherent and controllable enterprise, would never be as satisfying to his self-regard as this.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.
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Michael White: As well as taking action to curtail reckless bonus structures we should also take time to laugh at the self-regard, greedy habits and often execrable taste of the super-rich
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The book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, released a maddeningly vague statement about it today: O: A Presidential Novel is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard.
HUFFPOST HILL - Tucson Shooting Updates, Anonymous Dem House Member Weighs In Eliot Nelson 2011
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“O: A Presidential Novel” is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard.
New details about anonymous Obama novel Stephen Lowman 2011
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Now the incumbent Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, who is seeking a further term after 13 years distinguished, if that is the word, by self-regard and monumental complacency, is to face the ethics committee himself, following counter-claims by Mr Bin Hammam.
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